Visual Studio Team System

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Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS) is important new technology from Microsoft. What does it mean to you?

Microsoft's upcoming VSTS product represents an effort to move up the food chain from selling loosely coupled tools to a process oriented environment with more tightly integrated tools.

The base layer of VSTS is a set of SQL Server based tools collectively known as 'Team Foundation'.

A fundamental building block is a new, robust, version control system.

The shiniest new tool is work item tracking which manages the transit of software through the development process. This supplies polices to ensure that required parts of the process don't get overlooked, and co-ordination emails to other people engaged in the process.

In short a work flow based approach.

Hatteras - Source Code Control Services

Currituck - Work Item Management

Team Foundation Server Roadmap New server based tools include a new heavy duty version control system, and work item tracking. What to expect... Team Foundation Pricing Always a popular question. Answered by Buck Hodges... Source Code Control Services (Hatteras) New server based tools include a new heavy duty version control system ... Work Item Tracking (Currituck) Another SQL Server based tool provides, yes, bug tracking, but it's also extensible ... Source Code Control and Item Tracking Demo Demo of the source code control and item tracking features in Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation...

To use Team Foundation Server, you'll need to deploy Active Directory for at least the Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Refresh. This may or may not be a requirement just for this release.